November 27, 2023
Rotorua trending in web bookings
Rotorua Lakes mayor Tania Tapsell says the community and businesses are feeling confident about their future in tourism.
Last week Booking.com included the sulphur city on its list of top 10 trending destinations – alongside another geothermal tourism hotspot, Beppu in Japan.
Ms Tapsell says council’s investment in adventure tourism to complement the city’s natural resources has paid dividends.
“Whether it’s booking.com’s trending destinations, or actually, the international events, we do attract for mountain biking, like Crankworx, where people are actually acknowledging that some of our natural assets here in Rotorua are uniquely Rotorua. You can’t find it anywhere else in the world where you have geothermal forests and 16 lakes,” she says.
Ms Tapsell says the booking.com survey noted 74 percent of people agreed being close to water made them instantly feel more relaxed.